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Camden News - by CHARLOTTE CHAMBERS
Published: 28 August 2008

Photographers Angela Inglis and Peter Herbert in the conference centre of St Pancras Hospital

King’s Cross photo’s prove tricky journey!

PHOTOGRAPHER Angela Inglis revealed she turned a few heads during her 10 years’ documenting the changing scenescape of King’s Cross as she helped open a new exhibition of her work.
Mrs Inglis took pictures of the area from 1986 to 2007 – when St Pancras Station was reopened by the Queen – and on Thursday an exhibition opened in the conference centre of St Pancras Hospital in St Pancras Way.
It is intended to breathe new life into the centre, which has been closed for six months, although the curator, Peter Herbert, already fills the rest of the hospital with local artists’ works.
He chose to use pictures from Mrs Inglis’s book, Railway Lands, and some of his own pictures, to relaunch the centre, which will have rolling exhibitions from now on, using work created by patients and staff. The next show, starting in October, will feature work by a nurse from the hospital and her sister.
Remembering her days pounding the pavement in search of a perfect shot, Mrs Inglis said: “What stands out in my memory was people telling me what a silly woman I was for walking around taking pictures.”
But her work is now recognised as the only significant record of the many buildings, bridges and even streets that vanished during the makeover.
“People seemed to be glad I was doing it,” she added.
The exhibition runs until October 6.

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